Quiz 2.3: Pre-Darwinian Views of the Natural World

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. Essentialism, as a pre-Darwinian concept, is heavily related to Plato's notion of the links that existed between the ________ and _________ worlds.

ideal; material correct incorrect

geological; geographical correct incorrect

profane; secular correct incorrect

religious; scientific correct incorrect

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. Two geological notions played a large role in derailing essentialism: Georges Cuvier's ________, which suggests that natural disasters are mostly responsible for the fossil record, and Charles Lyell's _______, which notes that geological processes happen the same way now as they did in the past.

catastrophism; uniformitarianism correct incorrect

naturalism; catastrophism correct incorrect

binomial nomenclature; punctuated equilibrium correct incorrect

Naturalism; uniformitarianism correct incorrect

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. Lamarckian evolution is also called ___________ because its general premise is that individual organisms from every species adapt to their environments over time.

natural selection correct incorrect

transformational evolution correct incorrect

evolutionary theory correct incorrect

variational evolution correct incorrect

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